The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939

Williams, William Carlos) Litz, A. Walton & MacGowan, Christopher (Editors)

ISBN 10: 0811211878 / ISBN 13: 9780811211871

Published by New Directions, NY, 1991

About this Item

white printed wraps; 579 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Seller Inventory # 044896

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
• Publisher: New Directions, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811211878
• ISBN 13: 9780811211871
• Binding: Paperback
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: Octavo ~23 cm / 9" tall Octavo, Approximately 23 centimetres, or 9 inches tall
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Considered by many to be the most characteristically American of our twentieth-century poets, William Carlos Williams "wanted to write a poem / that you would understand / ,,,But you got to try hard―."

So that readers could more fully understand the extent of Williams' radical simplicity, all of his published poetry, excluding Paterson, was reissued in two definite volumes, of which this is the first.

About the Author

Besides being a practicing physician, William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) was a poet, short-story writer, novelist, translator, playwright, and essayist whose contribution to the development of modern American poetry grew out of his commitment to recording the "local" experience of Rutherford, New Jersey, and its environs.